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HYDROPHYTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrophytic mean?
• HYDROPHYTIC (adjective)
The adjective HYDROPHYTIC has 1 sense:
1. growing wholly or partially in water
Familiarity information: HYDROPHYTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Growing wholly or partially in water
Context example:
water lilies are hydrophytic
Similar:
hydric (having or characterized by excessive moisture)
Derivation:
hydrophyte (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)
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